WPwatercooler - Weekly WordPress Talk Show

This week on WPwatercooler we will be discussing the new WordPress.com, the changed they recently did to it and how these changes work.
Show airs November 30 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
Show Notes

* Javascript, APIs, and the Future of WordPress – Scott Bolinger
* Dance to Calypso | Matt Mullenweg
* Calypso, 24 Hours Later | Matt Mullenweg
* WordPress.com – A control panel for your desktop
* Welcome to the New WordPress.com and WordPress.com App for Mac — WordPress.com News
* The Story Behind the New WordPress.com | Developer Resources

You can also watch Matt Mullenweg on a few other podcasts where he talked about Calypso

* Gillmor Gang: More Gravy | TechCrunch
* Interview with Automattic CEO, Matt Mullenweg, on Calypso and more | Post Status

Transcript
[Jason] – Hey, what's up everyone, this is Jason Tucker and this is WPwatercooler, episode number 164. Today's topic is the New WordPress.com. Let's go around the room real quick and get everyone introduced. We have almost a full cast and crew here. We got nine folks. George, tell us a little about yourself.
[George] – Hi, my name is George Stephanis, I work on Core and I work at Automattic. I didn't have that much to do with the new WordPress.com admin interface, but I'm a regular here, so I like to show up and shoot my mouth off, anyways. Also, Happy Blue Beanie Day, everybody.
[Steve] – A happy what?
[George]- Happy Blue Beanie Day for web standards.
[Steve] – I heard a Happy Belinia Day.
[Jason] – No, in other news.
[Russ] – I thought he was talking about alcohol and doing belinis.
[Se] – I don't even know what you people are talking about.
[Jason] – Folks, we got nine people to get through, Jason Cosper, tell us about yourself.
[Cosper] – Hey, I'm Jason, I'm the developer advocate over at WP Engine, and I'll let someone else go.
[Jason] – Awesome.
[Jason] – Kevin.
[Kevin] – I am Kevin, I am a designer at Automatic, and I did work on WP Calypso for the past 20 months or so.
[Se] – Oh my God.
[Kevin] – You'll answer any questions, or if you hate it, then I'll just log off or something.
[Steve] – Just like Kevin, act like there's technical problems and just quit.
[Jason] – Yep, yep.
[Jason] – Sorry, you're breaking up.
[Kevin] – Yeah, yeah, the microphone.
[Se] – I'll just sign off right now.
[Steve] – What?
[Jason] – So tell us about yourself, Robert.
[Robert] – Oh, good, my name's Robert Dall, I'm a WordPress designer in Vancouver, Canada, and I really need a haircut right now.
[Se] – That is relevant information.
[Jason] – Russ.
[George] – How is your dating life?
[Russ] – Hey, my name is Russ, lead organizer of WordCamp Vegas, and I feel like we took Apocalypse Now and the Mel Gibson movie Apocalypto and we put them together and made Calypso.
[Steve] – How long have you been working on that line?
[Russ] – All week.
[Russ] 30 seconds.
[Se] All week.

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EP162 – How to get the most from your first WordPress WordCamp Show airs Nov 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier=”ep162-how-to-get-the-most-from-your-first-wordpress-wordcamp-5-5649333101020″ show_gravatar=”true”]

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EP162 – How to get the most from your first WordPress WordCamp
Show airs Nov 16 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 7PM UTC
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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing sanitizing data stored in custom fields in WordPress, this is a continuation from our  EP159 – WordPress user generated content, what to look out for. Join us as we dig deeper into storing user generated data and sanitizing such data. * Javascript and XSS 00:03 * SQL Injections 00:04 * xkcd: Exploits of a Mom 00:05 * esc_html 00:06 * wp_kses 00:08 * Security advisory: Stored XSS in Jetpack – Sucuri Blog 00:10 * Data Validation « WordPress Codex 00:10 * Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode – parker higgins dot net 00:16 * Solid backups – WPwatercooler 00:18 * minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings · GitHub 00:20 * EP56 – Do's & don'ts of social media integration with WordPress – Oct 7 2013 WPwatercooler 00:29 [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier=”ep161-sanitizing-data-stored-in-custom-fields-in-wordpress-5-563ff1d23edce” show_gravatar=”true”]

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This week on WPwatercooler we'll be discussing sanitizing data stored in custom fields in WordPress, this is a continuation from our  EP159 – WordPress user generated content, what to look out for. Join us as we dig deeper into storing user generated data and sanitizing such data.

* Javascript and XSS 00:03
* SQL Injections 00:04
* xkcd: Exploits of a Mom 00:05
* esc_html 00:06
* wp_kses 00:08
* Security advisory: Stored XSS in Jetpack – Sucuri Blog 00:10
* Data Validation « WordPress Codex 00:10
* Writing the Prince symbol in Unicode – parker higgins dot net 00:16
* Solid backups – WPwatercooler 00:18
* minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings · GitHub 00:20
* EP56 – Do's & don'ts of social media integration with WordPress – Oct 7 2013 WPwatercooler 00:29

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This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, Kevin Hoffman, Verious B. Smith III, Bridget Willard, gregdyer, and Austin Iuliano https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/beaverbuilder/ https://business.pinterest.com/en/rich-pins https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/ http://www.learndash.com/ http://chrislema.com/elearning-on-wordpress-wp-courseware-learndash/ https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/dynamik https://blogvault.net/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ https://wistia.com https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/wpengine https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/transfer-wordpress/ https://www.wpwatercooler.com/recommendations https://wordpress.org/plugins/wistia-wordpress-oembed-plugin/

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This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, Kevin Hoffman, Verious B. Smith III, Bridget Willard, gregdyer, and Austin Iuliano
https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/beaverbuilder/

https://business.pinterest.com/en/rich-pins

https://yoast.com/rel-canonical/

http://www.learndash.com/

http://chrislema.com/elearning-on-wordpress-wp-courseware-learndash/

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/dynamik

https://blogvault.net/

https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/

https://wistia.com

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/click/wpengine

https://www.siteground.com/tutorials/wordpress/transfer-wordpress/

https://www.wpwatercooler.com/recommendations

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wistia-wordpress-oembed-plugin/

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This week we'll be discussing how to build a email newsletter using WordPress from forms to rss fed content we'll try and discuss it all. Show airs Nov 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC * Getting MailChimp to Send my Blog Posts to your Inbox 00:03 * ConvertKit 00:05 * WordPress › Event Calendar Newsletter « WordPress Plugins 00:10 * WordPress › WP Email Capture « WordPress Plugins 00:11 * ConvertKit Demo by Pat Flynn – SPI TV, Ep. 28 00:11 * Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:11 * OptinMonster 00:15 * ConvertKit 00:16 * LouisCK.net | Mailing List 00:16 * Transactional Email from MailChimp – Mandrill 00:19 * Email Delivery & Transactional Email Service | SendGrid 00:19 * Transactional Email API Service for Developers by Rackspace – Mailgun 00:21 * WordPress › SendGrid « WordPress Plugins 00:21 * Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:22 * EDD Product Updates – Easy Digital Downloads 00:23 * The best apps. Better together. – Zapier 00:26 [LISTATTENDEES event_identifier=”ep160-building-an-email-newsletter-using-wordpress-5-5636aac7bf748″ show_gravatar=”true”]

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This week we'll be discussing how to build a email newsletter using WordPress from forms to rss fed content we'll try and discuss it all.
Show airs Nov 2 at 11am PDT / 2pm EDT / 6PM UTC

* Getting MailChimp to Send my Blog Posts to your Inbox 00:03
* ConvertKit 00:05
* WordPress › Event Calendar Newsletter « WordPress Plugins 00:10
* WordPress › WP Email Capture « WordPress Plugins 00:11
* ConvertKit Demo by Pat Flynn – SPI TV, Ep. 28 00:11
* Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:11
* OptinMonster 00:15
* ConvertKit 00:16
* LouisCK.net | Mailing List 00:16
* Transactional Email from MailChimp – Mandrill 00:19
* Email Delivery & Transactional Email Service | SendGrid 00:19
* Transactional Email API Service for Developers by Rackspace – Mailgun 00:21
* WordPress › SendGrid « WordPress Plugins 00:21
* Email Archives – Easy Digital Downloads 00:22
* EDD Product Updates – Easy Digital Downloads 00:23
* The best apps. Better together. – Zapier 00:26

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We asked people on Twitter to submit their questions using the hashtag #AskWPBlab What are the most effective SEO WordPress plugins? Are there plans to integrate better security measures in WP core? For example, not allowing ‘admin' as a username? What's your weekly maintenance routine look like for your sites? Beyond backup and run updates, what else do you do regularly? What's your best tip for meeting wordpress people IRL? How do you find where people are and make yourself part of the group? What is it about the #WordPress community that makes it different from or better than or worse than other similar communities? What are the benefits of using #WordPress over others like Wix, Weebly, etc.? What are the most popular WP frameworks and how do you go about choosing the best one? Is there a place for newbies in the WordPress community? This is a replay of the live broadcast with Jason Tucker, Oscar Gonzalez, Adam Silver, and Bridget Willard

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